On Monday February 23 2004 10:50, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday February 23 2004 8:43, Sean Shanny wrote: > >> *LOG: received smart shutdown request * > >> *FATAL: the database system is shutting down > >> FATAL: the database system is shutting down > >> LOG: server process (PID 4691) was terminated by signal 9 > >> LOG: terminating any other active server processes > >> LOG: statistics collector process (PID 361) was terminated by signal > >> 9 > > > > Looks like it got a SIGTERM, which is what you might get if someone > > shutdown OSX (osx pls gurus correct me). > > Uh, no, signal 9 is SIGKILL not SIGTERM. I'm not aware of any automatic > mechanism in OS X that would issue SIGKILL against a Postgres backend. > Certainly Postgres itself would not. Some Linux kernels issue SIGKILL > to get out of out-of-memory situations, but I believe OS X to be better > behaved than that.
Uh, no, I didn't say signal 9 is SIGTERM. Isn't a "smart" shutdown request an indication of a SIGTERM? I'm just speculating about what happened, but isn't that what you'd see during a system shutdown? The kernel sending SIGTERMs? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]